[Dshield] Message from M$

Actually, as the story goes, the hacker got into an employee's machine which was
VPN into the corporate network and did his nefarious deeds via the employee
connection. MS learned from that.
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----- Original Message -----
From: "John Hardin" <johnh at aproposretail.com>
To: "General DShield Discussion List" <list at dshield.org>
Sent: Monday, August 18, 2003 11:33 AM
Subject: RE: [Dshield] Message from M$
| On Mon, 2003-08-18 at 08:47, Dan Morrill wrote:
| > As well, this morning's press release about the GNU FTP
| > Server being compromised doesn't help. This is not one of those things that
| > instill confidence in Linux or any open source project when that happens.
|| How much confidence do you have in MS software after the report that a
| hacker cracked their corporate network a few years back and was able to
| wander around and essentially download all of the sources for XP before
| being detected?
|| (Or am I misremembering the details...?)
|| > Its industry wide, not a particular vendor of a product, OS, application or
| > otherwise. I haven't met an application that has lived up to the sales
| > speech yet.
| >
| > Stop bashing, provide solutions, ones that will work dealing with humans,
| > and their amazing ability to just "not get it".
|| Too true.
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| John Hardin KA7OHZ
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| Apropos Retail Management Systems, Inc. fax: (425) 672-0192
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| "...in retrospect, we probably should have turned it on by default."
| - Craig Mundie, Microsoft CTO, on shipping Windows XP with the
| much-hyped "Internet Connection Firewall" turned off by default
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